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I’m guessing the reclamation isn’t complete
The other side of this building, which has that nice banner announcing Reclaim Colorado City. Good that the city’s started the effort, but there’s still a ways to go.
But, to be slightly selfish for a minute, I don’t mind the disrepair one bit: it makes for much more interesting photographs.
Colorado City, Texas
photographed 3.13.2013
West Texas, a sense of place
I am happy to announce that my photograph “Why Travel the Stars” has been accepted into “West Texas, a sense of place,” a show sponsored by the Texas Photographic Society and Odessa College. The show will have 36 images, from 24 photographers.
The show will open on November 4 at the Options Gallery at Odessa College, which is (this part is complicated) in Odessa, Texas. Stop by, if you’re in the area.
“Why Travel the Stars”
Marathon, Texas
photographed 11.12.2011
I can’t add a thing
Words – I just don’t have any.*
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 10.6.2013
* I know, right? No one saw this coming.
Somewhere, apparently, there are watermelons
Somewhere, off to the right, it looks as though yellow meat watermelons are for sale.
I’m going to be honest: after I saw this sign, I made two u-turns to get back to this corner. I drove up one street and down another one and never did see any watermelons. I saw concrete pipe sections, and a grain elevator, and some metal stuff, but no watermelon. Which is sort of a shame: yellow watermelon’s my favorite.
Now that I think about it, maybe I assumed too much. That sign doesn’t actually say the melons are for sale. It just announces their presence somewhere, just letting us know that over there, to the right, someone’s got a melon or two in the refrigerator. Good to know.
But I’m glad I don’t have to post a sign announcing the contents of my refrigerator. Because it would have to say “Scary-looking leftovers”.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 10.6.2013
The bypass did
The highway used to go through town. But now there’s a bypass and all the traffic heading south toward Lamesa or San Angelo or north to Lubbock just goes right by, at 75 miles per hour. At the very north end of town, and almost literally in the shadow of the first bypass overpass, an abandoned restaurant has spent the past couple of decades trying to fade away.
It hasn’t. Yet. But I feel like it will eventually be successful in that endeavor.
Tahoka, Texas
photographed 10.6.2013
